I have learned a lot in the last couple of days. On top of breaking the sink and a bottle of wine I managed to start a fire in the kitchen, when a towel was placed a little too close to the stove. My family is always making fun of me; my one brother calls me Eugene from Hey Arnold (for those of you 90’s kids). Eugene was the one that was always breaking something. Luciano my eldest brother even suggest that I take an o out of my name to spell broke.
In Argentina when a tienda (store) doesn’t have the equivalent of a penny they give you a piece of candy, essentially candy money. I don’t recommend you eat them there more like a really bad cough drop. I also observed on the bus that there is a vender most the time they sell things like little bobby pins with Chinese writing on the label. The funny part is that they just don’t ask you if you want to purchase them they hand them to everyone on the bus and then announce to everyone on the bus the price. They usually cost about 50 cent or 2 pesos. Then they go back around the bus collecting the bobby pins and the money then exit the colectivo (bus) to do it all over again.
I also took my first adventure a lone in the city. I love to walk the streets here with fruit venders and the panaderias (bakeries) on every block. Here stores are customized for a certain item. For example you go to a store just to by meat then another for bread and another for school supplies. You can find this in the United States too but most of the time people just go to Target. Here people take their time and travel from tienda to tienda. The streets are filled as school gets out and people begin to fill the street cafes for tea time. I traveled to a bank to change my money from dollars to pesos, and I got a little turned around in the Plaza de San Martin but the people are really nice here and walked me straight to the door.
Oh future reference tea taza does not mean tea cup but rather breast. I learned that one the hard way one day during breakfast with my family. I’m getting better at volleyball to! Every time I hit the ball here the girls cheer, I think they feel like I don’t understand them and cheering is universal, it’s quite entertaining to tell the truth.
¡Chau!
In Argentina when a tienda (store) doesn’t have the equivalent of a penny they give you a piece of candy, essentially candy money. I don’t recommend you eat them there more like a really bad cough drop. I also observed on the bus that there is a vender most the time they sell things like little bobby pins with Chinese writing on the label. The funny part is that they just don’t ask you if you want to purchase them they hand them to everyone on the bus and then announce to everyone on the bus the price. They usually cost about 50 cent or 2 pesos. Then they go back around the bus collecting the bobby pins and the money then exit the colectivo (bus) to do it all over again.
I also took my first adventure a lone in the city. I love to walk the streets here with fruit venders and the panaderias (bakeries) on every block. Here stores are customized for a certain item. For example you go to a store just to by meat then another for bread and another for school supplies. You can find this in the United States too but most of the time people just go to Target. Here people take their time and travel from tienda to tienda. The streets are filled as school gets out and people begin to fill the street cafes for tea time. I traveled to a bank to change my money from dollars to pesos, and I got a little turned around in the Plaza de San Martin but the people are really nice here and walked me straight to the door.
Oh future reference tea taza does not mean tea cup but rather breast. I learned that one the hard way one day during breakfast with my family. I’m getting better at volleyball to! Every time I hit the ball here the girls cheer, I think they feel like I don’t understand them and cheering is universal, it’s quite entertaining to tell the truth.
¡Chau!
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